O Quotes
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“Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.”
“Originality finds the unexpected but inevitable next step.”
“Originality has nothing to do with producing something ’ new’ - it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which you draw and have always drawn your being. It comes about when one works from one’s origins, it is the dance of the eternal return… and is as ancient as the Dreamtime.”
“Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.”
Source: Radi Os
“Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.”
“Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.”
Source: Solitude a Return to the Self
“Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.”
“Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house.”
“Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.”
“Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.”
Source: The Robot Who Looked Like Me: Stories
“Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understand it.”
“Originality is a return to the origin.”
“Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could be expected to content us! In fact all strange thing are apt, without fault of theirs, to estrange us at first view, and unhappily scarcely anything is perfectly plain, but what is also perfectly common.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I've mentioned, of course, are original, but it's important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world. And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can't really depend upon what you've done with previous books.”
“Originality is always a strange thing. There's nothing original anymore. It's all something based on something in some way - even if it's not intentional. So that idea has been done.”
“Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide hitherto unavailable insights.... Notice that, although originality is a necessary condition of high aesthetic value, it is far from a sufficient condition. Many original works have little or no aesthetic value. An artwork may present a novel but uninteresting perspective, or one that is original but wrong.”
“Originality is being different from oneself, not others.”
Source: Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
“Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes, disrespects sacred cows or other such entities. It can be shocking, or ugly, or, to use the catch-all term so beloved of the tabloid press, controversial. And if we believe in liberty, if we want the air we breathe to remain plentiful and breathable, this is the art whose right to exist we must not only defend but celebrate. Art is not entertainment. At its very best, it's a revolution”
Source: Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
“Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.”
“Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.”
“Originality is for people with short memories”
“Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.”
“Originality is going back to origins.”
“Originality is in the eye of the beholder.”
“Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.”
Source: The Principles of Success in Literature
“Originality is merely a minor, secondary bonus to the pleasure of thought. Individuality, too, is a secondary aspect of the will and desire. The will is never mine; desire is never mine. For them to be will and desire, they have to circulate and be exchanged as symbolic material. For want of this symbolic devolution, we operate a technical transfer of all these functions on to machines — a transference of the human on to the inhuman. Now, if some human being thinks for me, nothing is lost. He is not lost, neither am I. Whereas if a machine thinks in my stead, we are both lost. In fact, this stage of the transference on to the machine is past. Today, it is machines which transfer their functions on to man. Man's fetishization of the machine has been succeeded by the fetishization of man by the machine.
Today, it is man who has become the object of the perverse desire of the machine, of its desire to function at all costs.
The machine is no longer an excrescence or a protruberance of man – it is man who is now merely the sex organ of the machine (Burroughs). And this is still quite a large claim, for what sex is the machine? Man has, rather, become the inflatable prosthesis of a sexless machine – the phantom limb of a useless function. The infinite degree, the degree zero, degree Xerox of the libido. Among those devices whose virtual libido man stokes up, there is of course the computer, of which man is the unconscious masturbator and his brain a hyper-object of concupiscence, but there is also the spectacularized body of woman, become a bachelor machine, a promotional and pornographic hypostasis, of which man is merely the sexless operator, the slavish voyeur, the auto-decoder.”
Source: Fragments
“Originality is merely an illusion.”
“Originality is never embraced as quickly as the commonplace.”
Source: Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy
“Originality is no excuse for ignorance.”
“Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath.”
“Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.”
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.”
“Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.”
“Originality is only variation.”
“Originality is putting its pants on while orthodoxy is ready to deliver.”
“Originality is really important.”
“Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.”
“Originality is so hip and cool, but to be original you must dare to be corny.”
“Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.”
Source: The affluent society
“Originality is the art of concealing your sources.”
“Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.”
Source: ZIK A SELECTION FROM THE SPEECHES OF NNAMDI AZIKIWE Governor-General of the Federation of Nigeria formerly President of the Nigerian Senate formerly Premier of the Eastern Region of Nigeria
“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.”
“Originality is the key to being memorable.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.”
“Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.”
Source: On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays
“Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.”
“Originality is the source of all human progress.”
Source: CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field
“Originality is undetected plagiarism.”
“Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.”